Environmentalists whine a lot. I whine mostly about biodiversity loss, global warming and mismanagement of ecosystems. As an environmental scientist, I whine with copious data, stultifying statistics and assumed authority. Even friends get tired of my harping and ask for solutions, not more details about the problems.
For nearly 20 years, I’ve studied radical environmental movements. Fifteen years ago, I met with a small group of them in a forest in Tennessee. One among that group now faces sentencing before a federal court in Oregon for crimes attributed to the Earth and Animal Liberation fronts.
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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of May 28th.
UF shark expert George Burgess was interviewed May 25 on NPR’s Science Friday about a female shark in an Omaha, Neb. aquarium that had given birth to a pup via parthenogenesis — without sperm from a male shark.
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a May 24 Wall Street Journal story about Goldman Sachs Group’s creation of a private system to trade stocks of companies that don’t want to go public.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On June 9, the final horse race of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, will run. But there’ll be more than confetti to pick up afterwards.
“Purchasing: What you need to know about the year-end process” is the title of an Academic and Professional Assembly-sponsored workshop for University of Florida employees.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Vita Golubovskaya, a research assistant professor of oncology in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of surgery, has received a $300,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. D. Lawrence Brock, an assistant clinical professor of periodontology at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, has received the American Academy of Periodontology’s 2007 Educator Award.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Dentistry has appointed Dr. Jaana Autio-Gold, an assistant professor of operative dentistry, as the college’s coordinator for preventive dentistry.